Address to President John Adams from the Citizens of Lancaster Borough and County Supporting the Government in its Attitude Toward France By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER IN THE proceedings of the Lancaster County Historical Society of October, 1924, appears an article entitled, "John Marshall in

pp. 335-51, of the Proceedings of The Lancaster County Historical Society. 1 Lancaster Journal, Friday, January 16th, 1829. 2 In a letter, dated Lancaster, Pa., January 14th, 1829, and addressed to John Reynolds, editor of the Lancaster Journal, Major John Getz stated that he was present at the

Compassville, a short distance east of the line that divides Chester and Lancaster counties. It was , kept for many years by John Miller. In the survey of the old King's Highway made by order of the House of Representatives of the Province of Pennsylvania in �The Sign of the Bull, Compassville, Chester County

Lancaster in 1796 By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER I N the fine collection of rare books in the Library of Congress, Washington, D. C., is one entitled, "Travels Through the United States of North America in 1795, 1796 and 1797." The work, in two volumes, was pub- lished in London in 1807. The author

also the capital of Pennsylvania from the summer of 1799 until the autumn of 1812. Carefully preserved among the archives of the Lancaster County Historical Society is an interesting old handbill, published in 1809 by the then well- known printer of Lancaster, William Greer. It is headed, "A List of

dollars reward. Jacob Awl of Paxton Township, Lancaster County offered twenty dollars reward for the return of his negro man named Joe and the black mare he took with him. Wednesday, December 17, 1777 and also volume 11 Colonial Records page 369 BY THE SUPREME EXECUTIVE COUNCIL OF THE COMMON- WEALTH OF

The references to the organization in the local papers are few, and little information concerning its activities can be obtained. The Lancaster Journal of Friday, February 3rd, 1815, contained an announcement that the trustees of the "Juvenile Library Society" were requested to meet at the house of

Baynton & Co.; stopped at the Duke of Cum- berland [1/4 mile east of Leacock Presbyterian church, Lancaster county, Pa.], fifty-seven miles." That night he lodged at • his kinsman's, Joseph Boude, in Lancaster. On August 8th he crossed the Susquehanna at Wright's Ferry, now Columbia, and at sundown